Top 40 APUSH

World War 1

Compromise of 1850 delays Civil War for 10 years

Ratification of US Constitution; New government established

Pilgrims arrival at Plymouth in New England

Pearl Harbor; US enters World War 2

Establishment of Formal Relations with China

Americans Held Hostage in Iran for 444 days

American Civil War

Progressive Era

Reconstruction period in American South

Jamestown was founded

“Manifest Destiny” reaches peak

Election of Andrew Jackson

Truman Doctrine

Bush V. Gore supreme court decision

Direct Involvement by US in Vietnam

Election of Franklin Roosevelt

End of Cold War; fall of Berlin Wall and political changes in Eastern Europe

Yalta Conference; V-E Day and V-J day end WW2

Tet offensive; Anti-war demonstrations; Riots at Democratic Convention; Assassinations of MLK and RFK

Spanish - American war

Trail of Tears (Cherokee Indian Removal)

Election of Lincoln; Beginning of Southern seccession

Declaration of Independence

Sputnik

Civil Rights Act; Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Election of Ronald Reagan marks conservative political swing

Defeat of Spanish Armada by England

Korean Conflict

Jefferson purchases Louisiana from the French

Election of Jefferson; Transfer of power to new political party

Resignation of Richard Nixon; Watergate

Critical Period (Articles of Confederation)

Crash of stock market marks beginning of great depression

Gulf war

Census bureau announces the end of the frontier

Peace of Paris ends French and Indian War

Assassination of John Kennedy

Election of McKinley; End of the populist movement

First voyage of Columbus